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From Thomas Braad Toft
Subject PostgreSQL ignores my indexes
Date
Msg-id 53775.193.162.192.11.1109167312.squirrel@webmail.tuffmail.net
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Hello,

I'm having two tables (listed):

CREATE TABLE "public"."device" ( "id" BIGSERIAL, "name" TEXT, "serialnumber" TEXT,-- many more columns --
) WITH OIDS;

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "device_id_key" ON "public"."device" USING btree ("id");

CREATE INDEX "device_name_index" ON "public"."device" USING hash ("name");

CREATE TABLE "public"."tmeevent" ( "id" BIGSERIAL, "tme_endpointlabel" TEXT, "tme_ip_address" INET, "tme_gateway" TEXT,
"tme_tmeserver_id"TEXT, "tme_action" TEXT, "tme_argument" TEXT, "tstamp" TIMESTAMP(6) WITHOUT TIME ZONE DEFAULT now(),
"debug"BOOLEAN DEFAULT false, "tme_status" TEXT, CONSTRAINT "tmeevent_pkey" PRIMARY KEY("id")
 
) WITH OIDS;

CREATE INDEX "tmeevent_tmeendpointlabel_index" ON "public"."tmeevent" USING hash ("tme_endpointlabel");

Table device contains 5285 rows, tmeevent contains 834912 rows.

I have to make a query like the one below:

SELECT device.id AS device_id, tme_endpointlabel, tme_ip_address,
tme_gateway,   tme_tmeserver_id, tme_action, tme_argument, tstamp, tme_status
FROM (tmeevent LEFT JOIN device ON ((tmeevent.tme_endpointlabel =
device.name)))

Doing an explain analyze on this query gives me:
Hash Join  (cost=578.06..91208.59 rows=853428 width=167) (actual
time=35.22..8992.61 rows=835013 loops=1)
Hash Cond: ("outer".tme_endpointlabel = "inner".name)
->  Seq Scan on tmeevent  (cost=0.00..23606.12 rows=834912 width=138)
(actual time=0.04..2193.97 rows=834912 loops=1)
->  Hash  (cost=564.85..564.85 rows=5285 width=29) (actual
time=35.06..35.06 rows=0 loops=1)
->  Seq Scan on device  (cost=0.00..564.85 rows=5285 width=29) (actual
time=0.04..25.07 rows=5285 loops=1)
Total runtime: 9499.58 msec

Why isn't the planner using my indexes? I tried making them as both rtree
and btree, but that doesn't seem to work.
I've been running VACUUM and ANALYZE on both tables, but it doesn't help.

Thanks in advance!

-- 
Thomas Braad Toft


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